Do I seem to not exist in the old days? Increase the bet, and the green veins also appear. I know, does it exist now?
You ask me to be pompous, and don't be afraid to add a few boos. If I am boring, can you see the performance? Is it hysterical enough? Drenched with tears, I only want you to be surprised. Do I seem to not exist in the old days? Increase the bet, and the green veins also appear. I know, does it exist now?
Xiaoyin
Before understanding "Yin and Yang Demon Realm", we must first understand the concept of "Yin and Yang Demon Realm (Blurred Time and Space)".
As explained in the play: "You are traversing another dimension, a dimension where vision, sound, and thought exist. It wanders in the middle of light and shadow, science and supernatural, wandering in the deep valley of human fear and the pinnacle of knowledge. ."
The Yin and Yang Demon Realm is not much different from the human world, but it is not the human world. Science is still valid here, but there are also supernatural forces here. It can be regarded as a human world temporarily reproduced based on the human world and suspended outside the human world. It is a super laboratory of the human world, where we touch the bottom line of human fear and reach the limit of human knowledge. peak.
As to whether it can be done is another matter, let's look at the story.
Each episode is an independent story.
1. Idealism and final torture
The first episode is titled "Comedian".
The protagonist of this episode is an Indian comedian Samir Vasan. Although he hopes to be famous in the field of comedy, he does not want to be sensational. He wants to use his comedy to criticize society and alert the world. In other words, he is an idealist, not a comedic clown who goes with the crowd and has no integrity.
The paragraph about gun control and the Second Amendment that Samir talked about at the beginning of this episode is the embodiment of Samir's performance values.
In the play, the comedic clown who exists as the opposite of Samir is his colleague Joe Donner. He is a drunkard who once drove to death a mother and son waiting on the platform. He escaped the punishment of the law, and he has no regrets. On the stage, he caters to the low-level needs of the audience, even if it must make himself look low-level.
But Samir did not want to be like him, at least for the first five years of his career, he did not let himself fall.
But because his career has not improved, he is almost unable to sustain it. The audience is not interested in his serious comedy. What they like is Joe’s "show" on the stage. This low-level joy, a moment of relaxation before a long emptiness, and a joke that suddenly appears in the bustling life is what they need. , Accepted.
This day was once again a bad night, the difference is that Samir met someone who changed him. This person is JC Wheeler, a senior celebrity in the comedy world.
Wheeler's retreat when the scenery was boundless was a noteworthy detail. Samir said he was puzzled: "You had it all, why did you retire?"
Wheeler said: "(Because) I had it all."
Wheeler's answer shows that he did not do comedy because of his true love, and he should be tired of the bad atmosphere in the comedy world. Therefore, when he was successful, he would wash his hands in the golden basin and be happy.
Wheeler is an exquisite egoist, and the attributive "exquisite" is very important because he is not as extensive as Joe, he is thoughtful and has his own theory. But in essence, he and Joe are no different. And from the perspective of influence, it is this kind of person who causes irreparable destructive power to the entire society.
Wheeler successfully lured Samir's desire to be unadorned in his heart.
"What exactly do you want? Are you satisfied with your current life? Are you satisfied with your career? Don't you want it all?"
Wheeler removed the vines in Samir's heart and went straight to the end: what do you really want?
Samir's idealism could not be overcome before the ultimate torture, he admitted that success is what he desires most.
Judging from this answer, Samir is not an extreme idealist. I think Samir’s answer is a wake-up call for many people who consider themselves idealists:
If idealism is a piece of gold, is your gold sufficient? What is the proportion of gold and what is the proportion of impurities? Will you give up real gold because of impurities?
If you examine your own values in this way, you still say, yes, I think I am still an idealist, then you are likely to be a true idealist.
Here, I am not advocating how good idealism is. I will not tell whether I am an idealist or not, because I will not use such a simple and clear concept to distinguish things. It is very convenient, but it is actually quite crude.
I just think that we should question our ultimate value, otherwise our usual self-positioning may just be self-deception.
Samir is actually a person wrapped in self-deception. Compared with Wheeler's exquisite egoism, his idealism lacks tenacity. Therefore, Wheeler did not change Samir, he just made Samir aware of himself clearly:
"You own a thing, a natural resource. You are a country that only exports one piece of goods, and you are that piece of goods. Put it there, and you will get laughs from the audience."
What Wheeler meant simply is that you will succeed when you trade with your audience.
But Wheeler also gave a solemn warning in advance:
"You have to make sure and then make sure, because once you give it out, the audience will take it (take it in) and connect with it. Once they connect with it, (the goods) belong to them. Once it belongs to them, You will lose that shit forever."
The one-of-a-kind export goods, that tuot of things, referred to by Wheeler refers to Samir's self. The self can be used to deal with a part of the outside world, but if you sell a part, you will lose this part forever. "
This is the theory in the play, but not mine, I just try to express it clearly.
Samir apparently didn't realize the terrible consequences of this kind of transaction, and he embarked on this path.
Samir's clinking with Wheeler was a bit of a contract with the devil.
2. Transaction = Lost
1. Cost: pet
In the next performance, Samir put it into practice.
At the beginning, he was still expressing it seriously, using the material of the Second Amendment.
Here I think it is necessary to explain it according to my understanding. Every time Samir starts with this joke, it seems that he is not level, but I don't think this is to show his professional ability.
This joke represents the form of comedy recognized in Samir's heart, an ideal state (a symbol of ideal).
However, whenever Samir presents his ideal expression, the audience's reaction is cold and disappointed (contrast with reality).
So Samir gave up this expression and began to sell himself and trade with the audience (the node of transformation) as Wheeler said.
I think it serves as a symbol, contrast, and emphasis.
Unsurprisingly, Samir's expression in his ideal state failed every time, so he practiced the deal time and time again, and he gave himself more and more things.
For the first time, he gave out his pet dog. He got a lot of laughter. When he returned home, he found that his pet dog had disappeared out of thin air, and his wife thought they had never had a pet.
This is what Wheeler is talking about. You hand over a part of yourself, you gain fame and fortune, but the part you lose is lost forever.
After searching fruitlessly, he realized this.
At this time, the narrator of Yin Yang Demon Realm came out to bring the rhythm:
"Now he needs to decide: when the laughter stops, what is really important to him; how much he is willing to contribute...to the Yin and Yang Devildom."
In other words, in the face of ideals and fame and fortune, which one would he choose? How much is he willing to sacrifice for fame and fortune?
A picture flashed by, and there was a boy in the picture, the nephew of Samir's wife.
2. Cost: relatives
This time Samir took his nephew to the bar to perform, and his nephew couldn't appreciate Samir's performance. What's more serious for Samir was that his nephew also mocked Samir's professional ability with his flexible brains. This is the introduction for Samir to offer his nephew after a while.
This time Samir still started with the Second Amendment, and all the audience bowed their heads to play with their phones, and didn't care about this topic at all. So he started to talk about low-level and interesting jokes and spoofed his nephew, but he was acclaimed again.
But when he took a closer look, the nephew disappeared from his seat.
He has lost part of his own things.
Not long ago, the female colleague who had seen his nephew had completely lost the impression of his nephew, and his wife had also forgotten her nephew, and the nephew in the family photo disappeared without a trace.
The disappearance of his nephew brought him much more serious psychological guilt than the loss of a pet dog, and he would feel that he had killed a person.
But his wife encouraged him to continue to do so. By the way, the relationship between the girlfriend and the man who visits late at night is inexplicable. The first moment Samir entered the door, his girlfriend and the man were in physical contact, and they drew back after seeing him.
The first time he went home, his girlfriend was sleeping drunk, and the second time he went home, his girlfriend and the man were drinking. It seems that this is not the first time this has happened.
I think my girlfriend had already wanted to leave him, but the sudden improvement in his career caused her to change her attitude.
His girlfriend's encouragement drove him to continue doing this.
What will he exchange for next time?
3. Cost: conscience
Before the third performance, two shots were ambushed in advance, both at the bus stop outside the performance bar. The bus stop was crashed and the cordon was pulled up, and citizens placed many memorial items.
This is the scene where Samir's colleague Joe killed the mother and son.
Samir's opening still failed. He began to work hard to find the excitement of the audience. Joe gave him inspiration. He used the matter of Joe drunk driving to kill the mother and daughter to talk about, and once again achieved good results.
This time, it seemed that he was just mocking his unscrupulous colleague, and Joe disappeared afterwards, and the accident at the bus stop did not happen. He was also very excited and felt that he had done a good thing.
However, I have to say that this is just a superficial phenomenon. The important thing is not the result, but the motivation. When Samir took this tragic event to please the audience, he had already trampled on his morality.
But the result of this incident gave him an excuse to continue to do so, so he let go of his burden and became shameless. He treats people with whom he has hatreds as conversations, and he becomes handy on the stage. He feels that his actions are just because those guys are bad guys.
He became a real star, a booming career, countless fans, his love also ushered in a turning point, and his relationship with his girlfriend was extremely sweet.
4. Cost: lover
The biggest problem with Samir’s deal is that audiences who are pursuing bad tastes will have higher and higher points (now popularly called “threshold”). Your jokes must constantly refresh the bottom line before they will continue to send them. applause.
Samir was holding the death note in his hand, and this time he moved his girlfriend's mind. His girlfriend Lina is a lawyer, and his mentor is named David, the man who spends a candlelight dinner with Lina alone in the middle of the night.
When Samir stood on the stage again, he really encountered a greater challenge. The murder story he made up temporarily could not arouse the audience's interest, and the scene was dead silent.
At this time, he set his sights on his girlfriend Lina in the audience. He was determined to refresh the bottom line and hand over more of himself to the audience.
Then he threw the matter of his girlfriend and mentor to the audience, and the room once again set off a climax of echoes.
But the consequence of this time is that his girlfriend's mentor disappeared, and his lawyer's career ended. His girlfriend suddenly became a working girl in a fast food restaurant from a professional white-collar worker.
His girlfriend still left him.
He did not expect such a consequence.
The story ends here, and it's time to test the gold content of this story. Whether it has the significance of a police policy depends on how well the subsequent flipping and sublimation are done, and whether it can further unearth the profound changes in human nature.
3. Confession: the final performance
Samir has reached an unprecedented point.
On the one hand, his guilt has reached its peak, and he desperately wants to abandon this devil's agreement.
On the other hand, he got a godsend opportunity within his reach. He only needs to kill one more person (a competitor female colleague), and he can reach the sky in one step and become famous all over the world.
He was fighting between heaven and man in his heart, he wanted to succeed eagerly, but he couldn't convince himself not to be responsible for the disappeared lives.
It was Wheeler's appearance that induced him to break through the threshold in his heart.
On the stage, he was cruel, repeating the name of the rival female colleague repeatedly, causing her to disappear.
He won the only chance.
Samir fell into an out-of-control madness. He exported all the people he could think of as commodities to the audience. These people have undoubtedly disappeared in this world. But his shameless to crazy performance made the audience happy.
Samir became a demon.
Is this over? NO!
Samir's ex-girlfriend appeared, and she found Samir's death note, which was filled with people he was dissatisfied with. These people were all the lives he had sacrificed before.
However, because these people have disappeared, it is equivalent to having never been to this world, so his ex-girlfriend does not know the truth. She thinks Samir is doing every day to avenge these people who upset him and gain a sense of emptiness. .
The ex-girlfriend said angrily, burn me up with me as your profit material!
At this time, Samir, who had committed countless evils, had an obvious choice. He could make his ex-girlfriend disappear in front of him immediately and never existed.
The audience also held their breath for him, and their expectations for him reached a new high. Everyone wanted to see a more exciting and incredibly exciting story.
Samir gave them a perfect ultimate story, he didn't kill his girlfriend. He chose to dedicate the only thing left to him-himself.
He cut open himself mercilessly, exposing all his dark side to the audience. He lit three thousand karma fires and pushed the game to the boiling point by burning himself to ashes.
At the same time, this is his final confession. He ended the transaction with his life as a sacrifice.
The microphone fell to the ground, and amid the hysterical cheers, Samir disappeared, and he was printed on the wall.
And those lives that had disappeared because of his actions have returned to the world again, because the instigator has disappeared, and his actions no longer count.
He redeemed those lives and also his soul.
For Samir, he did not come to this world, so of course, all his previous achievements were in vain.
In other words: if a person loses himself, he no longer owns anything.
You ask me to be pompous, and don't be afraid to add a few boos. If I am boring, can you see the performance? Is it hysterical enough? Drenched with tears, I only want you to be surprised. Do I seem to not exist in the old days? Increase the bet, and the green veins also appear. I know, does it exist now?
But in the end, what the story of "Comedian" reflects is how sad this society is.
——How sad it has become.
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"Elaborate on the Devildom of Yin and Yang"
"The True Detective"
"Mrs. Maisel"
"Introduction to a genius girlfriend"
"Mrs. Wilson in Detail"
"Elaborate on the Rabbit Republic"
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